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Updated: May 16, 2025
"You'll have to come in to the barracks, Pete. I I can't help it." "Get goin'," grinned the halfbreed. The Sergeant bent over his girth with flushed face. "I have no idea what's in store for you, Pete. The Inspector has a lot of faith in you." Blue Pete studied him quizzically. "More'n you have?" "I don't know. Oh, I don't understand." A shadow of pain came into the halfbreed's face.
To the bohunks, mildly staring after the vanishing halfbreed, his method of reaching the top was merely foolishly exhausting; but several weeks of acquaintance had taught them to accept his silent peculiarities with nothing more than casual wonder, though they disliked him for his unsociability, for the cold contempt that twisted his lips, and for the stifled volcano that smouldered within his squinting eyes.
"Even if we'd implicated your halfbreed friend?" The older man was peering beneath his iron-grey brows. "I'm afraid nothing more was needed to implicate Blue Pete," sighed Mahon. "For a halfbreed rustler he seems to have stamped himself on your imagination, Boy."
He ate heartily and sipped his coffee slowly, talking meanwhile to Jen and Galbraith. Pretty Pierre watched them all. Presently the gambler said: "Let us go and have our game of euchre, Galbraith. Ma'm'selle can well take care of Sergeant Tom." Galbraith drank the rest of his coffee, rose, and passed with Pierre into the bar-room. Then the halfbreed said to him, "You were careful thirty drops?"
Shorty's hand went blindly to his head; he looked dazed, breathless. "Lady Bennington a halfbreed!" was all he said. "Yes, Lady Bennington," said Hal. "And now will you let Shag read that address?" But Shag was at his elbow. "Hal, Hal, oh, why did you tell them?" he cried. Hal whirled about like one shot. "Tell them what do you mean by tell them? Did you know this all along?"
All over this broad expanse of upland prairie and wooded river bed and boldly undulating bluff line not so much as a spark of fire peeped through the wing of night to tell the presence of human wayfarer, white, halfbreed or Indian, even where the Sioux had swarmed, perhaps two hundred strong, at sunset of the day gone by.
Far out in the current the smooth gleam of the water was broken in moving eddies. Some round object was making its way toward the bank. In the cover of another cluster of trees further down the bank the halfbreed leaned out over the water and waved a warning hand. He dare not whistle or shout. But the round object, not forty yards out, turned sideways, revealing the head of a large dog.
What was in the far recesses of that soul, where these two young people were concerned, must remain unrevealed; but Li Choo and the halfbreed woman in their own language which was almost without words clucked and grunted their understanding.
He had returned to the house where his voice had always been able to summon his slaves, and to know that they would come Chinaman, half- breed, wife. Now he called, and the wife did not come. On the new chestnut she had ridden away on the prairie, so the halfbreed woman had said, as hard as he could go. He had scanned the prairie till night came, without seeing a sign of her.
The squinting eyes took on a sudden gleam, even a keen anticipation that could not escape the contractor's attention. "An' wud I be bossin' 'em about, them bohunks? Wud yuh let me do as I liked?" "Well," smiled Torrance, "not quite what you liked; you'd be under the foreman and me, you know." The halfbreed sighed. "That's allus the way. Suthin's allus foolin' me.
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